Oni Hogosha

Disclaimer: Naruto is a product of Masashi Kishimoto, so I don't own him.
Legend: "": quote, "italic": thought, italic: new Japanese word (check glossary), underline: techniques.

Chapter 4: Time for changes

Like the previous nights Naruto returned to the demon real for his late night trainings. It's been two weeks since Jiraiya had given him a scroll that contained four fire spells and he still had two more weeks till his deadline. Kyuubi was currently testing his mastery of the spells. The great demon had set up a few large boulders upon which he added some dead trees.

Kyuubi first ordered Naruto to burn a grass area of a radius of 10 meters surrounding the boulder to his south. As ordered, the teen quickly turned and performed a katon goukakyuu. The location was burned perfectly within the given boundaries. Next the great Fox asked him to light up the branches of a dead tree at his northwest but at an interval of branches. The boy jumped up and used katon housenka to hit his target while he spinned back to earth, igniting the required branches. The next target was at behind Naruto, but to add a bit of difficulty Kyuubi asked the boy to make a series of feints and flips and then hit the tree logs above the boulder with the dragon missile attack. Naruto performed the acrobatic moves and then turned to blow the logs with katon yadamaryuu, when suddenly Kyuubi unleashed his own kitsune kaenhoushaki to burn the logs.

"What was that for?" yelled the teen, confused by his fellow mates reaction.

"That was a simple lesson of life, never follow an order that forces you to show off your acrobatic skills when you must hit a target. In real life situations, you can't always follow orders; you must sometimes act on your own. Sure you are fast and those logs were stable but it is better to take it out as fast as possible instead of trying to do fancy moves. That's the reason your ex-friend Sasugay used to mess up most of his attacks", laughed Kyuubi.

"Good point, I need moving target to become better, since you are the only one here guess who will play the bait", smiled the teen, as he began to reform the seals.

The boy performed yadamaryuu on the great fox, who evaded it. The attack kept on for a few minutes as the fox acted him bait while Naruto practiced on him, after all he had his chikara shield to deflect the attacks.

"Hah, this is fun, tell you what, if you manage to hit me once I'll teach you a powerful fire attack of mine, it will make housenka look pathetic and as bonus I will add the kitsune kaenhoushaki as a bonus, deal", asked the Kyuubi.

"You are on, youkai!" yelled back the teen.

Both demon and guardian began their game, a contestant shooting war till one of the two tires out or their time runs out. It was their way of socializing themselves. After all it was helping Naruto gain more practice and it was good stretching exercise for Kyuubi. To play, Kyuubi transformed to medium height so that Naruto would have a tougher time aiming at him. He was surprised that Naruto still had enough stamina to play with him considering he started his night in Onimakai by spending two hours in Yuki's infamous chamber of doom, also known as gravity room. He guessed the teen was getting used to his aunts painful treatments.

Both were to distract to notice the stealthy Yuki approaching behind her favorite nephew. She was about to him for keeping his guard down when suddenly a shadow caught her blow and countered it. It was a dark silhouette of the boy, as if Naruto had suddenly split himself in two. The shadow accomplishing his goal merged back in his shadow a dark hole that was under Naruto, who turned his head and grinned at her aunt.

"You didn't expect that I counter learn to counter those sneak attack of yours now did you Yuki obasan?" said the boy.

"I see, a pretty nice technique indeed, guess you are finally learning to keep your guards up", she smiled back.

"You like it? It's my new creation, katsu eizou. I have been working on it secretly, it's not complete yet, as I intend to make it one of the most deadly jutsu around", smirks back the teen.

Meanwhile, Hikari who had joined her master commented on Kyuubi's childish act. A thousand years old demon who still wanted to be a kid.

"Hey, its not like its all fun and game we are training here, besides unlike you I already got my sexy nine tails as proof. So I don't need to act grumpy", laughed back the great Fox waving his tails towards Hikari when suddenly he was hit by fire.

"Stupid kid! What was that for?" he yelled angrily.

"That was to keep your promise to teach me those two fire spells you talked about. You never said stop remember? So live up to your promise damn fox!" yelled back the youth.

"Ah, that's good, you're a sneaky bastard like me after all, alright I will teach you, starting from tomorrow that is. Meanwhile let's meet our two new visitors", grinned back the Fox.


While they were chatting two shadowy figures had gotten down from the Great Hare. They had sparked Naruto's attention, as they seemed familiar.

"Ah yes I almost forgot the reason for my visit. Asura I agreed with Kyuubi that it was better that you be taught by people you knew already. So here are your first teachers Haku and Zabuza they will teach you the art of water jutsu", she said by revealing the blindfolded dead shinobis.

The mist duo were told they would meet an old acquaintance but they were unaware on who this Shinku Asura was. Till their blindfolds were removed revealing Naruto, thinking that the boy had also died Haku grabbed and started to shake him like a doll.

"Oh My God, Naruto-kun, what are you doing here? Don't tell me you died also?" screamed the Suisou.

Zabuza annoyed by Haku's reaction, clobbered him. Apparently he was vigilant enough to notice that Naruto did not have an aureole above his head.

"So Uzumaki Naruto, where are we? What's this Shinku Asura business and what relationship you have with this hot babe", he said by winking towards Yuki.

Yuki looked at the masked man, her eyes suddenly filled with rage as she clutched her fist. The next instant both teens stopped dead on their tracks as they felt a wave of killing intent coming from the scary woman, as she punches the living hell out of the Devil of Mist, sending him flying 15 meters away.

"That reminds me of someone", whispered Naruto, while thinking of Tsunade and Sakura.

"This is what happens to people who dare to associate the word "babe" with the Oni Hogosha no Usagi. He is lucky, I heard from Takeo-san that once she used him as a kunai target for a whole month for that same word and he is her husband …", said Hikari.

Zabuza got up painfully and walked back to the group. His body felt like being hammered by a train, but his pride prevented him from displaying his agony.

"You are in Onimakai, the realm of demon beasts, Shinku Yuki, is the aunt of Naruto, the Oni Hogosha no Kitsune, who is known here as Shinku Asura. If I were you, I would refrain myself from using that word again, next time you might end up pet food for her husbands tiger", said Kyuubi from behind as he transformed to his natural shape and scared the hell out of the Mist duo who fainted instantly.

Kyuubi enjoyed the fear he caused; he claimed it was a charming effect he had upon first encounters. When they awoke, Naruto explained his situation and the demon Fox so they calmed down. Zabuza had already agreed to train the boy and promised him a rough training. Naruto explained he's been there and done that while giving a smile towards his aunt. However, since the sun was going to rise up soon in earth, they postponed the training to the next day. Instead they began chatting it had been a while since they had last met and the duo wanted to learn what happen after their departure.

"So how is your team going? Is that Uchiha boy doing well? Hope he didn't mind tricking his death…" asked Haku with a giggle.

"Team 7 has been dissolved since Sakura has become the pupil of the Slug Sannin, now Hokage Tsunade, while I have become the pupil of the Toad Sannin, Jiraiya. As for Sasuke we are no longer associates", whispered quietly the blond teen.

"No longer associates? What happened?" asked the confused Zabuza.

"Let's just say, he got jealous and decided associate himself with the Snake Sannin, the murderer of Sandaime. He wanted more power then friendship so he went to the dark side. Let's not talk about this okay, I do not wish to further discuss this matter", said the blond shinobi.

Haku and Zabuza understood and left the matter on hold; instead they talked about his current situation and what he planned to do about it. Noticing his uneasiness Haku tried to comfort him by saying that at least he had people precious to him now so things will be fine.

"I have no one back there, I am no more then a monster there. It's my destiny I guess, a life of sorrow, solitude and secrecy… It's not that bad now that I have this place. I wish I could live here all day… it feels so much more like home here…" replied Naruto.

"Naruto-kun don't say that your precious people they will always care about you. If you give up hope on them, then you will have nothing left. Hopes and dreams that all an orphan has, you know. If we lose those then what will happen to the normal ones. Gifted orphans like us have the reasonability of helping them and becoming their inspirations, even if we are hated by our own people even though we are innocent. If we fail, then they will never be recognized and their pains will never be understood. That's why we must keep up, even if hardship, for we are all siblings of the same cause. People will never change in a day, you must show them the truth or they will never learn and you must take care of our siblings. Before I met you, I also though I was the only person to have a life of hell, but now that I look at it there are so many more. Power comes with responsibilities and this is one you cannot fail as it is intertwined with your destiny", said the longhaired boy.

Naruto always admired Haku's speeches of wisdom and like before he was right again. Only orphans can understand orphans and it was his responsibility to force the world to open their eyes to them. Noticing that the topic was getting too emotional they stopped their discussion and headed home. Naruto returned to earth realm, to the waterfalls and fell in his deep slumber. One may ask why he didn't open the portals from his home but his grand mother had once explained to him that these portal were very dangerous if they were to close each other, thus Naruto could only use the one he created from the village of fire.


The two weeks had passed pretty quickly and Naruto prepared himself for his encounter with Jiraiya. His training was grueling and tiresome but he enjoyed it. After all, each of his teachers had their own clown segments. Weather it was Yuki and Takeo with their sweet disputes, which usually ended with Takeo flying trough the roof, with hot topics as "honey were is my towel" a nice soap opera. Or Kyuubi's pranks on Hikari to annoy her that usually ended up with the Fox's greatest weakness. You see Kyuubi hated being pimped and Hikari was known to use fluffy talks to annoy the living hell out of him. Or the casual Haku and Zabuza stand up comedy. They were all very entertaining; if he didn't know better Zabuza and Kyuubi would be have been great comedians.
On his way to his meeting with the perverted Sannin at the waterfalls, he suddenly noticed the old geezer at his usual job; peeping over damsels in a nearby natural hot spring. Ashamed, he kicked the perverted directly on top of the girls, who seeing the white haired man screamed on top of their lungs then proceeded to give him a beating. Pretty soon Jiraiya had a bloody nose, not from seeing naked chicks but from feeling their naked fists. The girls satisfied of their work, were about to leave when Naruto kicked a second pervert on to them before he zoomed out. Apparently Ebisu, the closet pervert was also peeping on them and well, he received the same intensive nosebleed like his hero. After a while, the bloody nosed Jiraiya presented himself at the waterfalls he was angry with his pupil.

"Damn kid, why did you have to do that for? You made me forget my latest inspiration", he screamed.

"I was testing your invisible peeing skill, it seems they weren't as good as I heard … you might have to refine them", replied the teen with an annoying gesture.

"Very funny boy, I'll be the one laughing tonight if you don't perform well. If you fail, I'll make sure you get slapped by every girl in the village", shouted back Jiraiya.

Naruto smiled at the challenge and requested his targets for performing the jutsus. By nightfall, Jiraiya was astonished, not only had the boy mastered the fire jutsus but his sealing speed and chikara control was faster then him. The teen gave Jiraiya chills; an improvement at that magnitude during a month was very rare. In fact, amongst his former students only Arashi would rival that casting speed. Naruto truly was a genius at this rate he will have sucked all of Jiraiya's precious jutsus within the next two years.

"Amazing, you truly are like your father, well I guess it is time for some low ranked earth spells now", said the Toad sennin.

"What? Pass me some higher ranked fire spells first, the ones you gave were way to easy, see I even managed to create one of my own; katon kitsune kaenhoushaki!" yelled the teen, by unleashing a giant flamethrower with a fox face that made katon goukakyuu look pathetic.

Jiraiya was stunned at the power of the attack; it was obvious that this one was at minimum a B rank jutsu if not A rank. He began to question on how Naruto invented such a powerful jutsu. Kyuubi gave the boy began to yell from inside for overexposing one of his jutsus.

"Don't worry, I know what I am doing, I found an ultimate technique on getting him to give me stronger spells, just watch and enjoy the show", explained the boy to his beast.

Naruto began by explaining that he combined yadamaryuu and goukakyuu to make this spell and then explained that it was because of his "retarded Uchiha" bloodline. Then preceded to explain the reason for him going to lengths to learn higher ranked spells as Sasuke already copied the spell Jiraiya gave him even before the chuunin selection exam, so he was frustrated of learning them. He added that the Uchiha was very lucky since Orochimaru had shown him some of his B rank jutsus during their encounter at the exam. Thus was much stronger then him, since the boy could instantly learn the spells, while, he Naruto had to hear complain from his perverted sensei because now he possessed two B rank fire jutsus. He said all this with a sad puppy face, adding that at this rate he will never catch up to Sasuke because he, Jiraiya, was too chicken to pass him some stronger jutsus while Orochimaru fed them to Sasuke at free will.

The explanation had worked perfectly as Jiraiya raised his fist in the air, and began to curse the Uchiha and their damn sharingan for the next thirty minutes. Don't get him wrong, he wasn't an Anti-Uchiha but he still hated the fact that they had the power to instantly steal jutsus that might have taken him months to learn or create. Kyuubi and Naruto were enjoying teasing the sennin by adding more rants to get him fired up, like how Orochimaru dared to use A rank jutsus on him a bunch of 13 years old kids.

The next thing they knew, Jiraiya took a deep breath and unleashed the longest sets of curses that the boy had ever heard. One that lasted a full hour and went from how arrogant Orochimaru was till what a sadistic bastard he was using deadly jutsus on the young kids and how he spoiled his students by showing off his powerful jutsus. Meanwhile, in Otogakure, Orochimaru was sneezing continuously for the last hour, apparently someone was having a fond memories of him. Even though it was a lie that Sasuke had learned A rank jutsus from Orochimaru during the chuunin exam, the trick worked perfectly. Jiraya gave Naruto 4 more B ranked jutsu fire jutsus, which included karyuu endan and gamayu endan along with his famous A rank jutsus yomi nuuma. With the added bonus Jiraiya forgot about his interrogation, it was truly the ultimate technique against the Toad Sannin. That night, Naruto returned to Onimakai to entertain his friends about his latest exploit: making Jiraiya curse for a full one and half hours.


Weeks passed to months as Naruto kept on with his modified daily schedule. Yuki had decided to impose rules on his training so the lad doesn't overstep his own limit. Last thing she wanted was to see him get hurt. She had also noticed Naruto's lack of socialization in Konoha. Thus she imposed that he was to take a day off of training at each three days intervals. He would be at Onimakai only five nights and must spend sometimes socializing with his family, which he enjoyed very much. He would be also training a total of 12 hours a day this included his training in the demon world. With these restrictions she hoped he would socialize more with Konoha, which left him about four hours to spend in Konoha if she counted out his 8 hour sleeps.

However, the system backfired on her since Naruto took D rank missions from Tsunade to occupy himself. Well it was more his clones who took and performed his missions. He would be to busy working on his house after his personal needs.

This was a major change in Naruto's life. By Jiraiya's request and due to previous orders left behind by Yondaime, Naruto was the proprietor of the Uzumaki, which included the Uzumaki main mansion, belonging to his father. The district was a ghost town since there was only two Uzumaki remained alive and one of them didn't even live at his house due to his research. Naruto invested his free time working on the mansion and building it to its former glory of 14 years ago. It was a big mansion that had at least 6 bedrooms, 2 guest rooms and a large basement, a living room and kitchen not to mention about 4 bathrooms. He worked hard restoring the house, now empty. He had completed renovating three bedrooms and one guest room already, along with the kitchen, living room and 2 of the bathrooms. He was currently working on the basement, which he planned to make an indoor training facility.

He loved working on his house it kept him busy and kept him away from Konoha. In fact he was rarely visible in the village, his clones even did his shopping. In fact, apart his brief appearances in the ramen stand he was hardly there. Apart Jiraya the ramen shop owners none had seen the real Naruto for a year. Everyone was busy with missions and work and Naruto ignored all social organizations even those he was specially invited such as Ino's weekend party, where all the former rookie nine and team Gai attended. Plus events like today's kept the teen more isolated.

It was his day off and he was awaiting new furniture he had ordered a few days back. When the owner and deliver man noticed he was the customer they took the payment and left all the furniture on the street expressly. It ticked off Naruto that the villagers found every instant to treat him badly, but was happy that they hadn't been damaged. He used his clones to transport them in to their designated location without much trouble. The owner however wasn't so lucky; he had decided to complain to the council about having the demon posses the house of a former Hokage and had the displeasure of mentioning it in front of Tsunade. The Godaime was about to use him for her punching back but decided to hit him where it would hurt the most, his pocket by fining him for faulty customer service.


Meanwhile Tsunade was worried about her beloved genin. She hated herself for being always stuck in the administrative office or the hospital, enabling her to visit him. To make the matter worst he used to send his clones do his D rank missions to show his obvious displeasure. He was also avoiding all contact with Konoha and even asked that his new location be remained secret. Naruto wouldn't even bother seeing Sakura who constantly looked for him to no avail. All she heard was he was always training and complained many time to Tsunade about his lack of social activity, which included a birthday party at for his fourteenth anniversary. By now, his teammates pretty much gave up on him and moved on. He was just a missing entity that was too busy with his own life.

Tsunade vented her anger on the old geezer claiming he was training the boy to hard only to learn that it was the boy who was forcing him harder. Jiraiya complained that Tsunade should have ranked the boy chuunin already, he was far capable from doing the jobs as it was apparent since he was using doing the most unimaginable things to date, using shadow clones to do his mission without even presenting himself for them. Jiraiya also pointed out that the boy was such a genius that he already learned hirameki taijutsu before he could even teach him and was faster at it not to mention that he had drained 2/3 of the jutsus the Toad sennin knew already.

Tsunade also wanted Naruto to implicate more in the village, but due to the outrageous demands of missions and the current cold war against Otogakure the council had cancelled the chuunin selection for at least another year. Tsunade was first uncertain about ranking him up, as she feared that away missions would distance him from the village even further. Jiraiya however convinced her, as he told her that Naruto wanted away missions. The reason he didn't like being in the village was their glares and he had figured that if he didn't see them he would have to face them. His clones wouldn't have a problem with those situations as they pretty much ignored the villagers. He wanted to explore the outside and even wanted to away missions with Jiraiya if possible, if not solo missions would do fine also.

Tsunade understood the reason, she knew how much it must hurt the boy after all they did try to blame him for the loss of Uchiha Sasuke in the hand of Orochimaru. Those outrageous comments burned her up, after all she knew the truth, they knew it too but they were ignorant fools who always blamed him for all their misery.

She finally decided to personally demand that the teen be ranked up. She presented evidences of his improvement including the 50 D rank missions the boy had done entirely with his clones without ever being present. With all the evidence against them they were pretty much forced to appoint him to chuunin, after all they needed more shinobis and Naruto was the favorite candidate from of Sandaime and they pretty much owed him for Godaime.

Naruto was delighted to hear when he heard he was summoned for a C rank mission. The very next day, a 5,7ft blond haired teen presented himself at her office. Tsunade was still having a hard time selling him to the customer, as he did not want to be escorted by an outrageous orange outfit kid, especially if he was alone. But one look at the boy threw all his complaints out of the window. The blond in front of them wasn't an orange outfit big mouth but a calm teen in black polo sweater and dark baggy pants. He was also wearing a navy blue cap sleeved trench coat with black trailing headband; apparently Yuki had worked hard to bring her nephew in fashion for the last year. Oh course, the teen had made sure that his clone was wearing their orange outfit during their visit in town with his old form. Last thing he wanted was to become the glorified Sasuke Uchiha replacement in front of his fan girls, who were currently seeking new replacement. So the new Uzumaki Naruto even took Tsunade by surprise.

The mission an escort of the merchant and his family to a city two days away went successfully. They didn't face any troubling bandits and the client sent words to Godaime praising the young man, who even managed to escape the seductions of his two lovely daughters. The slight problem was that the mission did take two days instead of four, as in the return trip was less then an hour, which led to only one conclusion: Uzumaki Naruto knew how to use those deadly flashing skills of his father.


End of chapter 4
Please review! If there are any words you do not understand, check the glossary or check previous chapters for explications. Thanks for all the reviews. This chapter has been edited. As you can see there has been various changes from its former edition. A friend of mine complained that I made Naruto to powerful and instantly jounin without giving much detail. So I changed the story a bit, making him less Sasugay-ish . Hope you enjoy it… I know I am! Oh yeah Sasugay, is a word invented by Kyuubi… it's his way of describing Sasuke's action and attitudes (cough, cough) no offense to gays.

Glossary

Obasan: Aunt.

Sannin: three. Title given to the legendary three warriors team of Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru.

Sennin: Sage or hermit, which ever you like.

Suisou: Crystal, name of the clan Haku and Kasumi come from. They used to be part of Water country till they were whipped out due to civil war.

Youkai: Demon.


Techniques

Doton yomi nuuma/Earth element swamp of the underworld: An A rank ninjutsu, that creates a giant swamp as big as the user wishes and sink its targets in it. It's a swamp quicksand attack. User: Jiraiya, Naruto.

Hirameki/Flash: Uzumaki bloodline taijutsu style. It allows the clan member to fight at flashing speed. This is one of the reasons that made the Uzumaki one of the most feared clans in the old times, the opponent would never see the oncoming attack and if they did by luck they would never be able to dodge the assault. Of course this depended of the user. User: Arashi, Naruto, Jiraiya.

Katon gamayu endan/Fire element toad oil fireball: A very powerful B rank fire ninjutsu that requires the assistance of Gamabunta and his oil, thus only Toad a summoner can use it. User: Jiraya-Gamabunta, Naruto-Gamabunta, Arashi-Gamabunta.

Katon goukakyuu/Fire element great fireball: An C rank ninjutsu of the fire element that giant spread fireball. User: Almost all chuunin ranked and up shinobi of Konoha.

Katon housenka/Fire element mythical fire phoenix: An C rank ninjutsu of the fire element, use to shower down small fireballs on the targets. User: Itachi, Sasuke, almost all Konoha chuunins.

Katon karyuu endan/Fire element stream of fire: A very strong B ranked fire ninjutsu that unleashes a powerful stream of fire. It is considered to be among the strongest fire elemental jutsus. User: Sandaime, Sannin, Arashi, Naruto, Kakashi.

Katon kitsune kaenhoushaki/Fire element fox flamethrower: A very strong B ranked fire ninjutsu, a stronger version of goukakyuu that only Kyuubi and Naruto can use. User: Uzumaki Naruto, Kyuubi.

Katon yadamaryuu/Fire element dragon missiles: A fast B rank fire ninjutsu. It targets likes a missile, as it can bend and is very strong. User: Naruto, almost all Konoha jounins.

Katsu eizou / Split-image silhouette: An A rank ninjutsu created by Naruto. Developed from the kage bunshin creates shadow silhouettes of the user that can attack and defend the user when required. The silhouettes hide inside black holes in the grounds thus they conserve energy as they do not require to keep the constant form of the user. It is a jutsu specifically attributed to Naruto one that gave him his legendary name as Kokuei Issen no Konoha. User: Naruto.